Hubert Humphrey Famous Quotes
The right to be heard does not autmatically include the right to be taken seriously.
"Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of the citizens to keep and bear arms. This is not to say that firearms should not be carefully used and that definite safety rules of precaution should not be taught and enforced. But the right of the citizens to bear arms is just one guarantee against arbitrary government and one more safeguard against a tyranny which now appears remote in America, but which historically has proved to be always possible."
Men in earnest have no time to waste In patching fig-leaves for the naked truth.
Never give up on anybody.
It is not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left.
Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
"The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it."
The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.
The hardest job for a politician today is to have the courage to be a moderate. It's easy to take an extreme position.
"In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be."
"You cannot go around and keep score. If you keep score on the good things and the bad things, you'll find out that you're a very miserable person. God gave man the ability to forget, which is one of the greatest attributes you have. Because if you remember everything that's happened to you, you generally remember that which is the most unfortunate."
"It was once said that the moral test of Government is how that Government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped."
Hubert Humphrey Quotations
"Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the sense shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness."
Hellen Keller
The mind is not sex-typed.
Margaret Mead
Every man is ignorant - just on different subjects.
Will Rogers
Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerve give to wisdom.
Mark Twain
"If divorce has increased by one thousand percent, don't blame the women's movement. Blame the obsolete sex roles on which our marriages were based."
Betty Naomi Friedan
"The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret."
Henri Frdric Amiel
Some of the most rewarding and beautiful moments of a friendship happen in the unforeseen open spaces between planned activities. It is important that you allow these spaces to exist.
Christine Leefeldt
"The university's characteristic state may be summarized by the words of the lady who said, I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something."
Hanna Holborn Gray
"If there is one thing worse than being an ugly duckling in a house of swans, it's having the swans pretend there's no difference."
Teena Booth
There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.
Michel de Montaigne